24.12.17

We all love taking selfies. Sometimes searching
for the perfect angle pushes people beyond the safety point and into the
bony embrace of the Grim Reaper.

Innocent
people perished all over the world due to selfie-related injuries, and the
phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down. Mourn with us these tragic deaths and
for Pete’s sake stop taking dangerous selfies.

29.10.17

With the
advancements being made to keep our world spinning, so to is the language that
we speak everyday. A graphic designer named John Koenig has created an amazing
website known as The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows. This website is
dedicated to creating new meaningful words that describe the emotions and
feelings for which we don’t have a solid word for yet. Enhancing our language
even further with new words for people to use.

1. Opia:
(n) The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel
simultaneously invasive and vulnerable

2. Sonder:
(n) The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your
own

3. Énouement:
(n) The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn
out, but not being able to tell your past self.

4. Monachopsis:
(n) The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

5. Rubatosis:
(n) The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

6. Vellichor:
(n) The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

7. Mauerbauertraurigkeit:
(n) The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you
really like.

8. Kenopsia:
(n) The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with
people but is now abandoned and quiet.

9. Chrysalism:
(n) the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

10. Jouska:
(n) A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

11. Anecdoche:
(n) A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening